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A tooth on a gear.
A gear; a cogwheel.
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
1976, Norman Denny (English translation), Hugo|Victor Hugo (original French), ''Misérables|Les Misérables''

‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’

Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you ''do'', then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog.

A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
(senseid) A clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length.
{{quote-text|en|year=1952|author=C. S. Lewis|title=The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
A small boat.
A trick or deception; a falsehood.
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To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
1726, (w) (debated), ''Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 17/Molly Mog|Molly Mog''

For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
To plagiarize.
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To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to off.

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October 3, 1718, John Dennis, ''letter to S. T. , Esq; On the Deceitfulness of Rumour''

Fustian tragedies (..) have(..)been cogg'd upon the town for Master-pieces.

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